How to run the "Purge" command through NSTask?

Question

I'm making a free Mac app that is simply a wrapper over the "purge" command that can be run in Terminal. I'm tired of the ripoffs that are populating the Mac App Store and I just want to help people. I've got the GUI finished I just can't figure out how to run the command successfully.

I know I need to use NSTask, but I'm probably not doing it correctly.

NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
[task setLaunchPath:@"/bin/sh"];
[task setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Purge", nil]];
[task launch];

How can I fix this?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '11 at 22:24

3

The purge executable is in /usr/bin, so:

NSTask *task = [[NSTask alloc] init];
[task setLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/purge"];
[task launch];

or, even easier:

[NSTask launchedTaskWithLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/purge" arguments:[NSArray array]];

answered Jul 19 '11 at 22:24

highlycaffeinated

19,729
9
60
91

Thanks! Worked like a charm. – Yep Jul 19 '11 at 22:35
1

it says launch path is not accessible looks like I need to run it as su , but can I somehow make it programatically ? (Xcode5.1 osx maveriks) – Coldsteel48 May 23 '14 at 16:20

How to run the "Purge" command through NSTask?

1 Answers1